PRES OBAMA ADDRESSING THE USE OF DRONE ATTACKS IN A MAJOR NATL SECURITY **

FOUR AMERICANS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SUCH STRIKES SINCE 2009, ACCORDING TO **

HE SAYS THE GOVT TARGETED AND KILLED RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC ANWAR AL AWLAKI **

DEATHS OCCURRED IN PAKISTAN AND YEMEN **

SECURITY TIGHTENED AT LONDON ARMY BARRACKS FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY'S BRUTAL **

TWO MEN WITH BUTCHER KNIVES HACKED A BRITISH SOLDIER TO DEATH IN BROAD **

POLICE LATER WOUNDED THE SUSPECTS IN A SHOOTOUT **

BRITISH OFFICIALS SAY THE ATTACK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN MOTIVATED BY RADICAL **

A PROPERTY IN EASTERN ENGLAND IS BEING SEARCHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE **

BRITISH PM DAVID CAMERON CALLS LONDON KILLING "A BETRAYAL OF ISLAM AND OF **

CAMERON TELLS REPORTERS OUTSIDE HIS DOWNING STREET RESIDENCE THAT "THERE IS **

CAMERON: "WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO TERROR OR TERRORISM IN ANY OF ITS FORMS **

NUMBER OF AMERICANS APPLYING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DROPPED BY 23,000 **

APPLICATIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT AID DECLINED TO A SEASONALLY ADJUSTED 340,000 **

THAT'S DOWN FROM 363,000 THE PREVIOUS WEEK AND A LEVEL CONSISTENT WITH **

TWO SUICIDE CAR BOMBS DETONATED IN NIGER SIMULTANEOUSLY MORE THAN 100 MILES **

ONE EXPLODED INSIDE A MILITARY CAMP IN THE CITY OF AGADEZ AND THE OTHER IN **

TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 29 WERE INJURED **

ATTACKS WERE CLAIMED BY THE ISLAMIC EXTREMIST GROUP THE MOVEMENT FOR **

AMERICAN MAN SUSPECTED OF KILLING FOUR PEOPLE ON THE RUN IN THE CZECH **

BRNO POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE MAN AS KEVIN DAHLGREN, BORN IN 1992 **


 

A GretaWire blogger tipped me off to this — suggesting I compare the Federal Government to YOUR financial situation

FIRST, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:

CBO FY 2012 budget forecast (August 22, 2012) – outlays, revenues, deficit and debt outstanding at the end of the fiscal year [September 30, 2012]

Spending: $3,563,000,000,000

 

Income (tax revenues): $2,435,000,000,000

 

Increase in debt: $1,324,000,000,000 [gross debt at 9/30/2011 vs. 9/30/2012]

 

Debt as of 9/30/2012: $16,088,000,000,000

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NOW JUST ELIMINATE BUNCH OF ZEROES and MAKE THIS MORE REALISTIC IN TERMS OF YOUR FAMILY and tell me if you think this is responsible financial planning:

Spending: $35,630

Income : $24,350

Increase in debt: $13,240 [gross debt at 9/30/2011 vs. 9/30/2012]

 

Debt as of 9/30/2012: $160,880

You would never let the above happen to YOUR family but that is what the politicians are doing to the Federal Government.









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